Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis)
Neil Munro (3 June 1863 – 22 December 1930)Brian Osborne and Ronald Armstrong, Introduction to "Para Handy: The Complete Edition" was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. He was basically a serious writer, but is now mainly known for his humorous short stories, originally written under the pen name Hugh Foulis. The best known of these stories are about the fictional Clyde puffer the ''Vital Spark'' and her captain Para Handy, but they also include stories about the waiter and kirk beadle Erchie MacPherson and the travelling drapery salesman Jimmy Swan. They were originally published in the ''Glasgow Evening News'', but collections were published as books. A key figure in Scottish literary circles, Munro was a friend of the writers J. M. Barrie, John Buchan, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and Joseph Conrad, and the artists Edward A. Hornel, George Houston (artist), George Houston, Pittendrigh MacGillivray and Robert Macaulay Stevenson. He ...
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Strang - Neil Munro, 1864 - 1930
Strang may refer to: People * Strang (surname) * Baron Strang, UK peerage Places * Strang, Oklahoma * Strang, Nebraska Strang is a village in Fillmore County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 34 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Strang is located along U.S. 81, a ... * Strang, Isle of Man {{Disambiguation, geo ...
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